Working Papers

This page highlights the Ethics Center's Faculty Associates' research in the field of ethics. All the papers listed below are "working papers" and are not yet published. Please click on the title of the paper and you will be directed to the webpage containing this paper or it will come up in pdf form.

Gordon Hull, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte

"Normative Aspects of a ‘Substantive' Precautionary Principle"

"One View of the Dungeon: Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb between Governmentality and Sovereignty"

"Contextual Gaps: Privacy Problems on Facebook" co-authored with Heather Lipford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte and Celine Latulipe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte.

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Tina Botts, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

Not for Myself Alone:  The Ethics of Balancing Parenting and Career"

"Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience"

"Suspect Class Doctrine:  An Instrument of Oppression"

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Robin M. James, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

(2009). "Autonomy, Universaltiy, and Playing the Guitar: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Feminist Deployments of the 'Master's Tools." Hypatia 24 (4):77-100.
Some feminists have argued that the “master's tools” cannot be utilized for feminist projects. When read through the lens of non-ideal theory, Judith Butler's reevaluation of “autonomy” and “universality” and Peaches's engagement with guitar rock are instances in which implements of patriarchy are productively repurposed for feminist ends. These examples evince two criteria whereby one can judge the success of such an attempt: first, accessibility and efficacy; second, that the use is deconstructive of its own conditions.

(2007). Deconstruction, Fetishism, and the Racial Contract: On the Politics of "Faking It" in Music. CR 7 (1):45-80.
I read Sara Kofman's work on Nietzsche, Charles Mills' _The Racial Contract_, and Kodwo Eshun's Afrofuturist musicology to argue that most condemnations of "faking it" in music rest on a racially and sexually problematic fetishization of "the real."

(2005). Gender and Aesthetics. Teaching Philosophy 28 (2):198-200.

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